Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
They did not know the way of peace, and there is no judgment in their paths. They have made crooked paths for themselves; whoever goes in them shall not know peace.
New American Standard Bible
And there is
They have made their paths crooked,
King James Version
The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.
Holman Bible
and there is no justice in their ways.
They have made their roads crooked;
no one who walks on them will know peace.
International Standard Version
The pathway of peace they do not know, and there is no justice in their courses. They have made their roads crooked; no one who walks in them will know peace."
A Conservative Version
They do not know the way of peace, and there is no justice in their goings. They have made them crooked paths. Whoever goes in it does not know peace.
American Standard Version
The way of peace they know not; and there is no justice in their goings: they have made them crooked paths; whosoever goeth therein doth not know peace.
Amplified
They do not know the way of peace,
And there is no justice in their tracks.
They have made them into crooked paths;
Whoever walks on them does not know peace.
Bible in Basic English
They have no knowledge of the way of peace, and there is no sense of what is right in their behaviour: they have made for themselves ways which are not straight; whoever goes in them has no knowledge of peace.
Darby Translation
the way of peace they know not, and there is no judgment in their goings; they have made their paths crooked: whoso goeth therein knoweth not peace.
Julia Smith Translation
The way of peace they knew not, and no judgment in their paths: they perverted their beaten paths for themselves: every one treading in it shall not know peace.
King James 2000
The way of peace they know not; and there is no justice in their paths: they have made themselves crooked paths: whosoever goes in them shall not know peace.
Lexham Expanded Bible
They do not know [the] way of peace, and there is no justice in their firm paths. They have made their paths crooked for themselves; everyone {who walks} in it knows no peace.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
But the way of peace they know not. In their goings is no equity, their ways are so crooked that whosoever goeth therein, knoweth nothing of peace.
NET Bible
They are unfamiliar with peace; their deeds are unjust. They use deceitful methods, and whoever deals with them is unfamiliar with peace.
New Heart English Bible
The way of peace they do not know; and there is no justice in their goings: they have made them crooked paths; whoever goes therein does not know peace.
The Emphasized Bible
the way of well-being, have they not known, And there is no justice in their tracks, - Their paths, have they made crooked for themselves, None who treadeth therein knoweth well - being.
Webster
The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whoever goeth therein shall not know peace.
World English Bible
The way of peace they don't know; and there is no justice in their goings: they have made them crooked paths; whoever goes therein does not know peace.
Youngs Literal Translation
A way of peace they have not known, And there is no judgment in their paths, Their paths they have made perverse for themselves, No treader in it hath known peace.
Themes
Crookedness » Crookedness, general references to
Crookedness » Those that make crooked paths
Duplicity » Crookedness, general references to
Evil » Way » General references to
Ignorance » Spiritual » General references to
No » Peace for the worldly and wicked
Pathway of sin » General references to
Peace » Social » No peace for the worldly and wicked
Spiritual » Ignorance » General references to
The counselors of peace » Who shall not have peace
Topics
Interlinear
Yada`
Mishpat
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 59:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
Rampant Transgression
7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and ruin are in their paths. 8 They did not know the way of peace, and there is no judgment in their paths. They have made crooked paths for themselves; whoever goes in them shall not know peace. 9 Therefore judgment is far from us; nor does justice overtake us. We wait for light, but behold, dimness; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.
Names
Cross References
Luke 1:79
to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
Isaiah 48:22
There is no peace, says Jehovah, to the wicked.
Isaiah 57:20-21
But the wicked are like the troubled sea, which cannot rest, and its waters cast up mire and dirt.
Psalm 58:1-2
To the Chief Musician. Do not destroy. A secret treasure of David. Will you indeed speak righteousness in silence? Do you judge uprightly, O sons of men?
Psalm 125:5
And those who turn aside to their crooked ways, Jehovah shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity; peace shall be on Israel.
Proverbs 2:15
whose ways are crooked, and are devious in their paths.
Proverbs 3:17
Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.
Proverbs 28:18
Whoever walks uprightly shall be saved; but he who is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.
Isaiah 5:7
For the vineyard of Jehovah of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah His pleasant plant; and He looked for justice, but behold bloody iniquity; for righteousness, but behold a cry!
Isaiah 59:14-15
And justice is driven back, and justice stands afar off; for truth has fallen in the street, and right cannot enter.
Jeremiah 5:1
Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in her open places, if you can find a man, if there is one who does justice, who seeks the truth; and I will pardon her.
Hosea 4:1-2
Hear the Word of Jehovah, sons of Israel. For Jehovah has a quarrel with the people of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
Amos 6:1-6
Woe to those at ease in Zion, and those trusting in the mountain of Samaria, who are noted as leader of the nations. And the house of Israel came to them.
Matthew 23:23
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithes of mint and dill and cummin, and you have left undone the weightier matters of the Law, judgment, mercy, and faith. You ought to have done these and not to leave the other undone.
Romans 3:17
and the way of peace they did not know."